[kde-edu]: Re: [GSOC] How to submit my own ideas

[Laurent G.]

Hi Virtosu, hi all,

I am Laurent Garnier, a somewhat co-maintainer of KGeography.
In fact, I just contributed maps and corrected one or two bugs.

I have crafted some more maps : http://lauranger.free.fr/kgeomapp/
with plugins I wrote to the gimp.
I had ideas to enhance KGeography, but I did not take time (or so
little) to do so.

Among available maps, there is one example of non-administrative map
http://lauranger.free.fr/kgeomapp/?divi=waters_world-class&name=Waters%C2%A0%28world-class%29
but we got no real return about such maps, neither positive nor
negative. So I guess it is not a high priority. And furthermore I hardly
see crafting maps as a subject for a GSoC ;-)

I tried to bring a kind of consistency between the maps I contributed,
with lines width that are OK for "Placing parts" activity and each time
same colors for frontiers, water and zones out of scope. Don't know if
it fits your taste (and users'). But if so, the code in my two plugins
could help writing the editing part. But, to my sense, this too is
secondary, as not many users want to craft their own map.

For point 3, I can not remember of which tracker entry you are refering to.

Point 4 seems more interesting, but may be the extension should not be
limited to history. In my home try to implements such a thing, I used
main cities, rivers, mountain ranges and ... cheeses /o\ One problem I
encountered with this try has to do with translations. I fear it might
not be easy to phrase built sentences in all languages.

Point 5 & 6 are more Web/mobile, I guess there are examples for that.

Hope it gives grain to grind

Laurent G.

Le 02/04/2011 16:03, Virtosu Sava a écrit :
> 1. implements *NON political* maps support
> sorry, my bad.
> 
> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Virtosu Sava <virtosu.sava at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> My view of future developing of KGeography :
>> 1. Acctually to implement TODO list : implements political maps support for
>> geographical (rivers, mountains, etc) is almost there if the map is
>> carefully crafted. Example: Have the map all of the same color, then for
>> each river, mountain, etc create a box big enough of the wanted color and
>> then associate the color of the box with the name of the river, etc.
>>  2. To add inside of the program, a tool what will permit you easily add
>> new map. Actually here:
>> http://edu.kde.org/kgeography/tutorials/kgeography-addmaps.pdf are
>> described by some of earlier developers method of adding new maps, but will
>> be more better to implement  this in to app. Also related to this, maybe to
>> implement some tools for painting more careful and better maps. (colors that
>> are right now implemented looks ugly).
>>  3. Implement possibility of getting some hints while solving/answering to
>> the questions in quiz.
>>  4. Implement some quiz related to history of some country or region (in
>> dependence of the map). (This can be extended in future as one of the major
>> features of this application).
>>  *5.To make a database in which should be kept all maps (with good
>> description) and using implemented tool, you can download/upload new maps in
>> your program.
>>  *6.To make or to port Kgeography to some mobile platform such as Android,
>> IOS.
>> * - not so necessarily